How about a $100 bagel at the Westin Hotel in Times Square? Or a $25,000 chocolate sundae called the Frrozen Haute Chocolate at Serendipity 3? Yeah… that’s pretty ridiculous huh? I guess if you would even consider getting a chocolate sundae worth as much as a good car, you probably don’t care about the price. It’s it amazing how much excess there is in the world?

JD really takes the whole “buying in bulk” concept very serious, buying over 80 lbs of beef for at least the second year in a row. Read about JD’s awesome taco soup recipe and some comments on why buying in bulk can be fun.

Ben talks about the 24/7 nature of work when you have a pager and how work-life balance goes out of whack. Ben… it’s 2007, replace pager with Blackberry dude, unless you’re a drug dealer.

Jeremy wants to know if mortgage bailouts encourage irresponsibility and punish prudent borrowers. I agree that they do encourage irresponsibility but I don’t think they’re avoidable because there are bigger things at stake, an overall economic slowdown hurts everyone (that’s not to say I think there should be bailouts, but I understand the reasoning). Plus ultimately gambling sometimes rewards the foolish.

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2 Responses to “Roundup: $1000 bagels and $25000 chocolate sundaes”

$100 bagel is nothing if a sundae cost $25,000 so everything is just relative. $25,000 might be a lot of money for us (like you said, we can buy a car) but people who buy $25,000 sundaes definitely do not buy $25,000 cars. People that wealthy buy $1 million dollar cars.

If I really like the $25,000 sundae and I can very comfortably afford it, does it really matter?

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